Seminar Series: Racial Stratification and Stress-Related Morbidity Among Older Americans (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar with Kyle Moore, Ph.D. Student at the New School and Resident Scholar at Equitable Growth. Moore presented new research investigating whether higher rates of both hypertension and inflammation among Black Americans can be explained through…
Seminar Series: Labor market impacts of universal and permanent cash transfers—evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar on Wednesday, November 28 lead by Damon Jones, associate professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, who presented new research on the labor market impact of unconditional and universal cash transfers. This resear…
Seminar Series: Are Immigrants Returning to Their Country of Origin Because They’re Earning Less? (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar on Wednesday, November 28 lead by Randall Akee, Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles and a Rubenstein Fellow in Economic Studies at The Brookings Institution. Akee presented new research suggesting that immigrant…
Seminar Series: Do TRAP Laws Trap Women into Bad Jobs? (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted a seminar lead by Economist Kate Bahn on Tuesday, July 31. Bahn presented new research on the impact of women’s access to reproductive health care on labor market opportunities in the United States. The presentation reviewed past evidence of the impa…
Seminar Series: Who Profits from Patents? Rent-Sharing at Innovative Firms (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Heidi Williams, Associate Professor of Economics at MIT, on Wednesday, June 20. Williams presented new research that investigates the link between firm performance and worker compensation induced by the decision to grant patents. The analysis uses a…
Seminar Series: Unions and Inequality Over the 20th Century—New Evidence from Survey Data
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Suresh Naidu, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics at Columbia University, on Wednesday, April 18. Naidu presented findings from an analysis of a new source of data on the effect of unions on economic inequality from…
Seminar Series: Inequality in Mortality—A Comparison of the U.S., Canada, and France (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth will host Janet Currie, the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing, as well as an Equitable Growth Steering Committee member, for a seminar on Thursday, Marc…
Seminar Series: Structural Presumption and Safe Harbor in Merger Review (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted John Kwoka, the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, for a seminar on Thursday, February 22. Antitrust practices in the United States have undergone dramatic changes over the past 30 to 40 years. The semin…
Seminar Series: The Evolution of Charter School Quality (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Marcus Casey, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a seminar On Wednesday, January 24. The seminar explored the impact of recent government meas…
Seminar Series: Rise of Monopoly Power in the United States—Macroeconomic Implications (Invitation only)
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The Washington Center for Equitable Growth hosted Jacob Robbins, Ph.D. candidate in economics at Brown University and Junior Fellow at Equitable Growth, for a seminar exploring a number of important macroeconomic trends in the United States over the past forty years. Among these trends: the rise of…